Horb near Fürth am Berg

Horb Large district town Neustadt near Coburg Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.93 km²
Residents :	54
Population density :	28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1967
Incorporated into:	Fürth on the mountain
Postal code :	96465
Area code :	09568
Horb

Horb bei Fürth am Berg (officially Horb b.Fürth a.Berg ) is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Neustadt bei Coburg in the Coburg district .

location

Horb is located about five kilometers southeast of Neustadt on the western edge of the Steinach Valley at the foot of the Horb-Fechheimer Sattelpass between the Horber and Birkiger Berg. The district boundary corresponds to the Bavarian state border with Thuringia in the east and is partially formed by the Röthenbach. State road 2708 from Mitwitz to Neustadt runs through the town. Municipal roads to Birkig and Fechheim begin in Horb.

history

Horb was first mentioned in 1317 as "Horwe" in the Urbarium , a list of possessions of the Hennebergers when they acquired the New Rulership. The place name probably goes back to "horo", which means something like "swamp floor" in Old High German and refers to the swampy location in the Steinach lowland.

In 1514 there were ten estates in the place that were owned by the Abbess von Sonnefeld . Before the Thirty Years' War there were ten able-bodied men in Horb; in 1648 there were four. In 1636 there were ten fireplaces and only two of the 120 day work fields were ordered with winter construction. There was a mill in 1636 below the Horb-Fechheimer Sattelpass. A new mill on the Steinach is documented for 1659. This was threatened by increasing floods and was therefore canceled by the miller Johann Georg Walther in 1698 and replaced by the Lower Mill in Heubisch in 1699.

Horb has been a subsidiary of Fechheim since the Middle Ages . There is also evidence that the place belonged to the Fechheim School Association since 1836. In 1953, upon application to the government of Upper Franconia, it was outsourced and incorporated into the school district of the Fürth am Berg association school. The Horber children have been attending schools in Neustadt since 1971.

After the death of Duke Albrecht in 1699, Horb came to Sachsen-Hildburghausen in 1705 as part of the Sonnefeld office . In 1826 the office of Sonnefeld came back to Saxony-Coburg in accordance with the Hildburghausen partition agreement . In a referendum on November 30, 1919, none of the citizens of Horber voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 19 against. Thus, from July 1, 1920, Horb belonged to the Free State of Bavaria .

In the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933 , the NSDAP received all 33 votes cast in Horb.

In the First and Second World War, four soldiers each Horber lost their lives. After the Second World War, the location on the inner-German border shaped the town until 1989 .

On July 1, 1967, Horb was incorporated into Fürth am Berg, which was incorporated into the newly founded municipality of Wasung on January 1, 1971 . Wasung was dissolved on January 1, 1976 and Horb became a district of Neustadt.

The drinking water supply used to be through running wells. A community-owned system with house connections existed from 1906, which was renewed in 1958. From July 1, 1978, the water supply was provided by the Spittelsteiner Group, which was taken over in 1986 by the Neustadt municipal utilities. From 1910 the electricity supplier was the overland plant of the Gumpertschen mill in Mupperg , initially with direct current and from 1922 with alternating current , and from the summer of 1936 the Bamberg overland plant in Upper Franconia. In 1997 Stadtwerke Neustadt took over the power supply. In 1987, Horb had 17 residential buildings, seven of which were built after 1949.

Population development

year population 1900 68 1925 60 1933 49 1939 47 1946 100 1950 104 1961 74 1980 63 1987 73 2013 54

Web links

Commons : Horb bei Fürth am Berg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local history: Compilation by Isolde Kalter: Horb

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Isolde Kalter: Horb
3. ^ Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1.) E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, p. 222
4. ^ Coburger Zeitung, issue No. 279 of December 1, 1919
5. ↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, 1989, p. 108
6. ↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, 1989, p. 28
7. ↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, 1989, pp. 378, 386
8. ↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. Second volume, 1993, p. 130
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Helmut Scheuerich: History of the city of Neustadt near Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, 1989, p. 394